What about the next eighteen years?

The pace of learning about pregnancy and birth has picked up, the most significant of which is: we are nearing the *start,* not the finish.

All through this blog I realise I have become sucked into the pregnancy world. In fact, all the conception, pregnancy and hoojamaflip is not even all about the birth. It's about the consequences.

A recent-ish new dad made the point a slightly different way. If gestation took two weeks, there would be little, if any, focus on the pregnancy. It would be all about the first weeks and months of the new baby, and realisation that we were starting something.

Pregnancy is so long, that it becomes a focus in itself. Towards the end, the birth becomes a focus in itself, such as birthing plans, the right music, home or hospital and the myriad other items that fill our heads.

What about the next eighteen years?